Having been screen printing for almost thirty years, why do I still get really irritated when people insist on calling it paint ... it's ink, goddamit! You print with ink!... darn, there goes my blood pressure again..
-------------------- Graham Parsons Signs 'n Such Ltd Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada. www.signsnsuch.com
"Saskatchewan - hard to pronounce, easy to draw" Posts: 710 | From: Saskatchewan, Canada | Registered: Oct 1999
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I have a customer, for who I have done four trucks for, that insists on calling gold leaf by "gold flake". Time after time after time he would say "gold flake" and I would correct him because it truly bothered me... Never did work.
Next week I am going to "gold flake" his truck and stuff greenbacks in my pocket...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Your lucky you didn't hear "silk" in the same sentence. But let's add:
...it's only 50 corex signs, I'll cut & weed um instead ...what do you mean you don't do shirts? Your a silk screen printer, ain't ya? ...can you print on my window screens? ...no, no, you don't understand, I want 3 of those cheap signs like you used to do. ...how do you stand that smell!..... Oh, they cost that much? I'll need something cheaper.
"screen printer jokes"
-------------------- Ron Helliar Marysville Sign 11807 51st Ave. NE Marysville, WA 98271 (360) 659-4856 Posts: 263 | From: Marysville, WA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I have been using more reflectant vinyl lately must be because it has nucular ingredients It sticks really well to alumium Bruce.....use gold leaf paint next time Im glad I spent 5 grand on a plotter so I can make diecuts.... The plotter makes great "peel" letters too
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Bruce - He probably was smokin some "Gold Flake" - somebody told me thats a code word for high quality marijuana - - -I have also seen it used on tobacco tins- - -maybe that had him confused?
-------------------- Carl Wood Olive Branch, Ms Posts: 1392 | From: Olive Branch,MS USA | Registered: Nov 1999
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What Ron says, especially "..what do you mean you don't do shirts? Your a silk screen printer, ain't ya?"
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1356 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Also, ... why won't they understand that a sign scaled up to twice the length is not just twice the price - 'cos the area has quadrupled!
Them.. "Hello, how much is a sign?" Me.. "What type of sign?" Them.. "You know.. a normal sign" Me.. "Well, how big?" Them.. "I just need a rough price" Me.. "What do you need it to say?" Them.. "Oh, we haven't decided on that yet" Me.. "Any thought on color?" Them.. "What do you think?" Me.. [to self] "You don't want to know what I think..."
-------------------- Graham Parsons Signs 'n Such Ltd Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada. www.signsnsuch.com
"Saskatchewan - hard to pronounce, easy to draw" Posts: 710 | From: Saskatchewan, Canada | Registered: Oct 1999
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Good and funny stuff, something new every week, though always ultimately the same. One of my favorites always will be when a customer approaches a neatly stacked bunch of 18x24's or so and says: Are they dry?
Ink! How would they know to call it ink?
It's only ink to us-to them it's paint.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
signslimited@triad.rr.com Posts: 1244 | From: Winston-Salem, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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And I'm with the rest of the screeners, I use ink and I think all of the silk worms that made screen fabric died.
-------------------- Robert M. Kistler South Bend Screen Process, Inc. 2018 S. Franklin St. South Bend IN 46613 Posts: 131 | From: South Bend Indiana | Registered: Jul 2003
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